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  • Errorless learning procedures to promote rapid acquisition and retention of skills.

  • Functional language taught early.

  • Individualized curriculum and treatment plans

    • developmentally appropriate.

    • reflect each child's strengths as well as needs.

    • incorporate the body of current empirically-validated intervention and teaching practices.

    • full integration of Applied Behavior Analysis with techniques from Speech and Language Therapy.
     

  • Establishing interactions with people as reinforcing

    • programs selected and developed in which the child must interact to keep the reinforcers coming".

    • peer interactions introduced early during treatment.


  • Generalization of skills is programmed for and measured concurrently with learning in structured teaching situations.

  • Self-management procedures including the use of photographic activity schedules and self-reinforcement systems to create independence and promote generalization.

  • Effective use of "downtime" to create incidental language opportunities and expand play and social skills.

  • Data-based decision making.

  • Strong presence of the Clinical Team

  • Training of Parents and other family members to promote generalization of the child's behavioral changes, use of language and newly acquired adaptive skills. When parents and other family members act in concert this contributes not only to the child's rate of progress but to the well being of the whole family.

  • Program Directors are a Speech and Language Pathologist and a Licensed Psychologist with expertise in Applied Behavior Analysis (Board Certified).
  

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